To hate the good weather

[ChuffinAda]

Garden noise. It goes right through me. Cackling neighbour and her chain smoking, the never ending squeak of trampoline springs from dawn to dusk, crap music being piped out from somewhere in competition with another type of crap music from a different direction, the grotty smell of bbqs.

I'm a grump. I'm an antisocial grump.

I think I need to move

One of my friends is a dermatologist and says that wearing a thin light coloured cotton long sleeve top is far better than any high protection SPF.

I would have thought that it would be more comfortable than messing around with suncream anyway.

I couldn't sleep last night because of the heat.

The neighbours annoying bloody kids kick their football against our wall, endlessly and because they do it from a public footpath there's nothing we can do.

The local kids congregate on our doorstep to chat. I've put them off it multiple times a day and they keep coming back.

When my husband is at work our carport makes a great goal.

It's warm enough for people to sit out hacking till one in the morning.

DIY, need I say more?

Bees, wasps, flies, ants...

I'd give my right arm to be home in Scotland!!

Earlhymama, sorry, but nature is very uncomfortable most of the time. If you eat/drink outside, bugs get into your food/drink. The temperature is rarely perfect and garden furniture is much less comfy than my sofa. Salad tastes actually better if someone else has grown it (thank heavens I'm no longer a child, and thus out of the phase when my allotment-aficionado father perpetuated this myth that it tastes better if you've grown it yourself - no, it doesn't, it tastes much better if someone had to bother with it) and I'm really glad I live in a high-rise flat (I can enjoy parks (tended by others) when I fancy it (very rarely) but on the other 360 days of the week I don't have to have anything to do with it. Wanting to control the environment - you bet!

Sit out yacking... Bloody spellcheck!

*if someone else had to bother with it.

'And why don't you wear sunglasses when it is sunny?' That's a fair question Bunbaker . I have utterly shite vision, I'm a -7 and can barely see a foot in front of me without my glasses. I wore contact lenses for years so could wear sunglasses, but lately they just make my eyes itchy as fuck and irritate the bejeesus out of me. So now I just end up with a massive headache from squinting in the sun.

Re could a medical condition be the reason for my lack of tolerance for heat. I guess it could be, I do have.a few unpleasant medical conditions, though I'm not sure if there is a correlation between any of them and an inability to cope with warm weather. I think it's just that my pale, pasty body is completely unequipped to handle warm weather. Even in the depths of icy winter I need to sleep with the bedroom windows open or I wake up drenched in sweat.

If it helps, I know I'm very much the minority, and I do feel like I'm pretty grumpy and miserable when almost everyone I know is rhapsodising about the joys of a lovely, hot, sunny day. I wish I enjoyed heat and sunshine. I just really, really don't.

"I couldn't sleep last night because of the heat."

And where in the UK is it so hot? It went down to 5 degrees here last night from a "high" of 15 degrees.

Shadows my eyesight is worse than yours and I have prescription sunglasses. I can't wear contact lenses either. My eyes are so sensitive to bright sunlight that I wouldn't be able to drive without sunglasses on a sunny day.

Besides, it really isn't good for your eyes not to wear sunglasses on a bright day. Long term exposure to UV radiation can increase the risk of cataracts, macular degeneration or damage to the retina.

Many opticians do 2 for 1 offers on glasses so you could get prescription sunglasses then, or you could get what I have and think is even better - glasses with magnetic clip on sunglasses. They don't make me look like a trainspotter either . It saves having to faff around swapping my glasses over when going from light to shade.

I hate HATE HATE hot weather. Brings all the inconsiderate people out. I never sit in my garden in fine weather because of other people's loud music. The sounds of kids playing, natural sounds, that's all OK; but why should I lhave to listen to your crappy music? Even inside the house the bass beat penetrates. very depressing. Like you're being personally invaded.

Seriously GillianRid ? You went through 2.5 years of threads just to complain about the sun?!